Yes! We are reading Cicero in Latin class.

To be specific, his defense of Milo in the trial over the murder of Clodius. It is immensely fun.

Dr. Jones, on how Milo plans to get out of this mess: "So, he hires the best lawyer in the history of the world."

Leigh Ann and I, eyes narrowed: "Cicero."

Dr. Jones: "What if I were to just make you do the first sentence?"

Lowell: *looks at the text* *strangled noise* "The first sentence is the entire paragraph!!"

And an awesome first sentence it is. Or first half, at least, divided by an editorially-inserted semicolon. It took me most of third period to figure it out, but it made perfect sense once I did so. One of the most fun sentences I've ever translated. Whee!

And yay, I now have a language category!

– ToM